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Robert K JSS Tech
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Improving Dropbox video preview quality - thinking outside the box
The poor quality of the Dropbox transcoded preview has been discussed over the years, particularly between 2015-2017. Over the last six years, internet speeds have changed remarkably and online stre...
Vision Video Pr
11 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I just upgraded my account pro plus and it appears to me playback quality online seems low res.
The file dowloads full resolution and looks great but not during playback online thru dropbox. Is there a setting for this?
Matt G.12
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Hi,
I'm back again because this happened again.
I uploaded a video for delivery to client. I specifically told them to download the file as it might not stream well. But - because that play button is there they clicked on it anyway and immidiately complained that the video wasn't HD and wasn't good enough. I realise this is rather daft of them but it would really help to have that warning.
On another note - Like the client I have a 10Mb line which streams in HD (Vimeo/YouTube etc) just fine but when I stream a dropbox link video it is choosing to stream in horribly bad quality despite the fast line.
I've heard that Google Drive doesn't seem to have this problem. And comes with 15Gb space...
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